Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A medium-sized deer (Cervus nippon) native to Japan and China but naturalized in Europe and other countries, having a small head, compact body, and mostly spotted reddish or chestnut coat. Several of its subspecies are endangered in the wild.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of deer found in Japan.
Wiktionary
- n. Cervus nippon, a deer found in the forests of East Asia
- n. A traditional Bangladeshi hanging basket
WordNet 3.0
- n. small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers
Etymologies
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- Japanese shika, deer. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Japanese sika deer _ (Cervus sika_), both of which are doing well.”
“If my understanding is correct, the term "sika" is used to refer to imported Japanese deer here in the states.”
“So, shouldn't we simply refer to the deer as "sika" or am I missing something here like a species designation?”
“The guy put a sika deer in the tiger pen, watched the tiger eat the deer, then, when other people noticed, freaked out and shot the tiger.”
“I'm not absolute certain about this (and against my better judgment I continue on) but isn't "sika deer" redundant?”
“Whistling sika deer in the UK have confused local mountain rescue teams, who have been searching for humans who may be in harm, after they heard the sounds of what they thought were emergency whistles being blown.”
“P.S. I think bluecollarkid is right, but if you just said sika to me I probably wouldn't remember that it's a deer.”
“Later, local wildlife people told us that sika deer can make this sort of whistling type noises.”
“New team leader John Stevenson said wildlife experts advised that it may have been the call of sika stags.”
“I did, however, get to masticate sika deer, which is sensational.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sika’.
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... to use these words in spoken English and reap esteem. In the SPOKEN corpus of the COCA (full corpus: 450 million words) none of these occur.
stochastic, disputant, state-led, almshouse, exceptionality, bibliographical, t-test, z-score, personal/social, neoplastic, stroma, ludic and 288 more...
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Deer
family Cervidae
45 specieswater chevrotain, alpine musk deer, Reeves' muntjac, Indian spotted ch..., fallow deer, axis deer, sambar, mule deer, white-tailed deer, marsh deer, Pere David's deer, red deer and 68 more...
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Maqams
"The designation maqam appeared for the first time in the treatises written in the fourteenth century by al-Sheikh al-Safadi and Abdulqadir al-Maraghi, and has since then been used as a technical t...
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